The Devoted Friend – A Strange and Sad Little Story by Oscar Wilde (Sad Story Warning)

📖 The Devoted Friend is a lesser-known fairy tale by Oscar Wilde — a sharp and ironic parable about kindness, selfishness, and the way people talk about morality when it suits them. Told through the frame of a conversation between a pompous Water-rat, a sensible Linnet, and a practical Duck, the story unfolds like a children’s fable… but stings like a cautionary tale for adults.

As always with Wilde, there's wit beneath the whimsy — and a bitter truth nestled among the flowers.

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